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 LC    Wing-snapping Cisticola* Id (Atlas):
    Cisticola ayresii

Description (10)
Image of Wing-snapping Cisticola
 

Other Names (World)
Wing-snapping Cisticola, Ayres's Cisticola, Ayres's Cloud Cisticola

Family
Cisticolidae (Cisticolas And Allies)

Size
9 cm

First Described (Guide)
Hartlaub, 1863

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical dry and high altitude grassland.

Range (Guide)
Angola, Burundi, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Gabon, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of], Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (35)...)

 
Wing-snapping Cisticola (Cisticola ayresii) [XC62287]
     by Peter Boesman from Kaapsehoop, South Africa (call, wing snapping and calls)

 
Wing-snapping Cisticola (Cisticola ayresii) [XC397924]
     by Dries Van de Loock from Plains around Chelinda, Nyika NP, Malawi (song)

Subspecies
Taxonomic status of subspecies gabun subject to some confusion. Recent observations of singing birds indicate that it may instead be a form of Pectoral-patch Cisticola (Cisticola brunnescens). Further study is required.

The following 6 subspecies are recognised:

  • gabun Lynes, 1931   -  Western Gabon, eastern PRCongo and extreme western DRCongo.
  • imatong Cave, 1938   -  Extreme southern Sudan and north-eastern Uganda.
  • entebbe Lynes, 1930   -  North-eastern DRCongo, Uganda, western Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi and north-western Tanzania.
  • itombwensis Prigogine, 1957   -  Eastern DRCongo.
  • mauensis van Someren, 1922   -  Highlands of Kenya and adjacent northern Tanzania.
  • ayresii Hartlaub, 1863   -  Angola, southern DRCongo, extreme north-western and north-eastern Zambia, southern Tanzania, northern Malawi, Zimbabwe, eastern South Africa and Lesotho.



References
See References.


Files:
JPG files for Wing-snapping Cisticola (Cisticola ayresii) - 10 files


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